More Minor Additions to the Site

The most obvious one is the Twitter feed in the sidebar. I should show a bunch
of my latest tweets in Twitter. Send me a message, or follow me on Twitter at @fretboardfreak.

Also added to the sidebar, just above the Twitter feed are a couple of new
links to my bitbucket and to my github accounts. All this is a part of an
attempt to create a more integrated, professional looking web presence. I want
to be able to tie the various techno-babble that I spew onto the internet
together and it seems that associating these various accounts goes a long way
to increasing ones footprint.

Finally, and I hope it is working, I think I managed to fix the favicon
meta-link for the website finally. So now, if you have this website
bookmarked you should see a little guitar icon instead of the default blank
document. Furthermore, fixing that link means that I no longer see any
javascript errors when I load the site too.

Another change that I’m thinking about making in the near future will be to
replace the livefyre comment system with links to twitter. It still means that
you need to have an account to send me comments but I’m hoping that it might
spawn more interaction simply because more people have Twitter accounts than
livefyre accounts. I’ll dive deeper into that thought at another time though.

One additional change that I’m going to make in the near future will be to
remove the git submodules containing the content of the site from the
repository that holds the software and website templates. I think it will be
fairly easy to do that, and to also move some of the config files from the
website repository into one of the content repos. This and a bit of
refactoring in the pre-process scripts should mean that the website repository
could be open sourced. Another step towards increasing my professional web
presense is the public release of functional code (especially when proof of
the functionality can be seen in something like this website).

Eventually I really want to spend a bunch more time working on the "About the
Site" page so that more of the details of how this website has evolved are
recorded. It has been a good combination of software evolution, trial and
error and learning.